Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 32 | ‘ They would just see it as , It puts you on the same wavelength , ’ Will laughs . |
| 33 | ‘ They would just see it as , It puts you on the same wavelength , ’ Will laughs . |
| 34 | I think it puts you in the clear . |
| 35 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 36 | It introduced him to the human race . |
| 37 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
| 38 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 39 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 40 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 41 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 42 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 43 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 44 | It reminded her of the disastrous pole-vault on the school sports-day , when Enid had cast a spell on Mildred 's pole to help her , but had inadvertently overdone the magic and Mildred had sailed through Miss Hardbroom 's study window . |
| 45 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 46 | It reminds us of the deadly risks which our police officers run on on our behalf , day and night . |
| 47 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 48 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 49 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 50 | Like many errors , it catches us on the two horns of a false choice . |
| 51 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 52 | Carrying them swiftly away on its crest , it hurled them against the black rocks of Gribbin Head . |
| 53 | The numbers attending are still disappointing but I believe that it is fully justified if for no other reason than that it provides us with the best — and most cost effective — corporate publicity we are likely to obtain . |
| 54 | ‘ You think you buy into somewhere crime can not reach and then it hits you with the worst kind . ’ |
| 55 | Er I mean it brings it about the same price as we 're paying anyway does n't it ? |